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Eric Baldeschwieler wrote:
> Can we turn this around and assume that writables will be given a stream
> and a length when they read? That would also let us remove redundant
> info...
Unless I misunderstand, that would make it harder to nest writables,
since all containers would need to store the length. Currently only
top-level containers (SequenceFile and the RPC protocol) need to write
lengths. Even these are optional, used only to optimize things.
Doug